I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 355 Bought them all!
"How about selling 22.8% of the shares to Future Investment together?"

Following Lin Xiao's words, Frank Foster showed a smile on his face and nodded:

"Of course, we are also happy to complete this cooperation with Future Investment. The price of 62% of the shares is 22.8 billion yuan, which is 14.13 billion yuan."

"I think the price is too high."

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he looked at Frank Foster seriously, and found that the other party's expression did not change at all, but said with a slight frown:
"Mr. Lin, we have discussed this valuation before, and you have already approved it."

He is also a master of emotional management!
Lin Xiao sighed inwardly, and stopped going around in circles with the other party, but said directly:

"Yes, but that was a few days ago, and Mr. Frank didn't tell me that Intel has canceled an order of [-] million meters from ASML."

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, the smile on Frank Foster's face suddenly disappeared, and he fell silent for a while.

But Lin Xiao relaxed at this moment.

The attitudes of Blackstone Capital and Philips changed drastically just now, and Lin Xiao realized that something was wrong. He asked Lan Yumo to inquire about the news.

At the beginning of this year, ASML spent a huge sum of 16 billion yuan to acquire Silicon Valley Group (SVG), which has a market value of only 10 billion yuan. The latter is a lithography machine giant that created glory before the rise of Island Semiconductor , Only after the rise of Nikon, SVG's market share was only 8%, and its annual turnover was less than 3 million yuan.

Even technically, he was no better than Asmel.

So at that time, Wall Street believed that the acquisition price of ASML was too high, and ASML’s share price fell by 7.5% that day.

However, ASML has its own considerations, that is, the acquisition of SVG means that ASML has obtained the right to supply Intel, because SVG is a supplier of Intel.

In fact, this acquisition is also one of the reasons why Philips will sit here today to discuss the sale of ASML shares. If there is no previous acquisition, ASML may have the money to buy back this part of the shares.

Lin Xiao didn't know so much detailed information, but the information Lan Yumo brought him was enough for him to get a general idea of ​​the matter.

Just now, Lan Yumo who came back from the outside told Lin Xiao:
"At the beginning of the year, ASML spent 16 billion yuan to acquire SVG and obtained Intel's lithography machine supply rights. However, today Intel announced that it canceled ASML's order of 1 million meters. ASML's stock price fell sharply. In just one hour, 10% of the market value evaporated directly.”

Lin Xiao didn't know whether the 1 million-meter order was discussed before ASML acquired SVG or after the acquisition, and he didn't know whether there was a shadow of Nikon behind it.

But these are not too important. Under the current situation of Nasdaq, ASML has encountered such important adverse news. The 10% must not be able to withstand it. A drop of [-]% or [-]% is possible. possible.

Moreover, this news is very likely to make the market lose confidence in ASML. After all, it is an order from the chip giant Intel, which in itself means that the industry does not recognize ASML.

Lin Xiao saw the smile on Frank Foster's face slowly disappearing at this time. He was sure that the other party must have known the news a long time ago, but he didn't expect that Intel would announce the news at this time.

It is even possible that it was precisely because Intel wanted to cancel ASML's order, and they knew that Philips lost confidence in ASML and wanted to sell all its shares.

Blackstone Capital must have received news about this a long time ago, so it temporarily decided not to negotiate with the three parties.

Now that Blackstone Capital is leaving, it is more likely that the other party knew the news and used it to lower the price too hard, which caused Philips to refuse to agree. Of course, it does not rule out that Blackstone Capital also has no confidence in this acquisition, and then directly abandons the acquisition. possible.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao directly said at this time: "Mr. Frank, let's talk again. Intel has canceled the 1 million meter order of ASML. The news has been fully announced. ASML's stock price has plummeted. Obviously we It is impossible to negotiate based on the market value of 62 billion yuan.”

"Intel is not ASML's biggest customer, and the impact on ASML's stock price is only temporary..." Frank Foster was still trying to maintain his stubbornness at this time.

"Mr. Frank, let's talk about something practical." Lin Xiao didn't let the other party go on.

"Of course, if Mr. Frank is willing to wait until ASML's shares fall a bit lower, I have no objection."

Lin Xiao's tone at this time became extremely calm. Compared with before, he undoubtedly became the active party at this time.

It is almost certain that, under such circumstances, almost no investment institution will choose to take the initiative to buy ASML shares with Philips, which means that for the time being, Lin Xiao has no competitors for the acquisition.

Moreover, Lin Xiao guessed that Philips should not be willing to drag it down any further and increase the number of accidents.

Sure enough, just when Lin Xiao was thinking this way, a more enthusiastic smile reappeared on Frank Foster's face.

"Future Investment is indeed a sincere partner, so let's have a serious talk, Mr. Lin."

After Frank Foster finished speaking, seeing that Lin Xiao didn't intend to speak first, he went on to say:
"We regret Intel's approach. Considering that ASML's stock price has indeed been greatly affected, we are willing to reduce the price by 5 million yuan."

Lin Xiao did not answer Frank Foster's words directly, but asked Lan Yumo in English: "This wave of bad news, how much is ASML's share price expected to fall?"

"At least 50%!" Lan Yumo replied directly: "Judging from the downward trend of Nasdaq in the past two months, even if a company is in normal production, if there is relatively large bad news, the stock price will drop by 50% above."

Lin Xiao turned his head after listening, looked at Frank Foster and said, "Mr. Frank, you heard it."

Frank Foster immediately shook his head and said: "Mr. Lin, it cannot be calculated in this way. ASML's stock price is just a drop in bad news. When the market sentiment stabilizes, it may still return to its high point."

"But there is also a very high possibility that you have fallen into the bottom." Lin Xiao said bluntly.

"Well, Mr. Frank, at a price of US$35 billion, I will acquire all 22.8% of Philips' shares, which will retain more than 55% of ASML's market value."

"That's impossible!" Frank Foster said loudly, shaking his head immediately.

"55 billion yuan, this is the lowest price we can quote."

"If that's the case, then I can only say sorry. It's impossible for us to accept this price for future investment. I think it's better to wait for the situation to become clear before discussing it." Lin Xiao got up and was about to leave.

After Frank Foster saw it, he didn't show the slightest intention to hold back. He just sat there and said calmly:

"Mr. Lin, Blackstone Capital just gave an offer that exceeds yours, but I did not accept it."

"That's a big capital company, our company can't compare with them." Lin Xiao said casually, then left his seat, and walked out of the meeting room with Lan Yumo and Dong Meilan.

"Mr. Frank, if Philips accepts this offer in the past two days, please contact me."

Frank Foster also stood up at this time, watching every move of Lin Xiao and the three of them. After seeing Lin Xiaozhen walking out of the conference room without stopping, Frank Foster's eyes flickered slightly, and finally followed him out of the conference room .

"Mr. Lin, wait."

Lin Xiao, who had just walked a few steps, stopped slowly when he heard the voice, and then turned around to look at the other party.

"10 billion yuan, 22.8% of the shares." Frank Foster's voice sounded again.

This guy is thinking about his 10 billion yuan. When Lin Xiao heard this, he muttered inwardly, but his face was full of regret and he said:
"Mr. Frank, I have some regrets. I was planning to use 10 billion yuan to acquire the shares of ASML, but because you said that Blackstone Capital will take the majority of the shares, I have already made some other acquisitions in advance. At present, the future investment It is no longer possible to come up with so much money to do this transaction."

Although he knew that Lin Xiao's words were probably making excuses, the corners of Frank Foster's mouth twitched.

This excuse is a run on people.

"That's it." At this moment, Lin Xiao's voice sounded again.

"ASML's price is 40 billion yuan, and Future Investment will acquire all 22.8% of your company's shares. This is my last offer."

Previously, Frank Foster's quotation was about 43.86 billion yuan, but Lin Xiao cut another nearly 4 million yuan.

Frank Foster was not in a hurry to refute at this time, hesitated, and said to Lin Xiao: "Mr. Lin, please wait in the conference room, I need to report to the headquarters."

After hearing this, Lin Xiao said suspiciously: "Did your headquarters make a decision so quickly? Or I'd better go to the hotel and wait."

"No, Mr. Lin, I have already obtained the authorization from the headquarters. At this time, I just need to report to the president and get approval." Frank Foster said.

It seems that Frank Foster made himself wait for more than 40 minutes before. It is very likely that he did not chat with Blackstone Capital for so long, but communicated with the headquarters about this sudden incident first.

At this time, Lin Xiao, who was listening to the other party, nodded while thinking, turned around and walked back to the meeting room. He approached the door and said to Frank Foster:
"Hurry up, then, I'm not sure if I'll change my mind if the time goes on. Just now, my partner said that ASML's stock price has fallen by 20%..."

Frank Foster nodded. In fact, he was more anxious than Lin Xiao. If it fell by 30%, the market value would reach 43.4 billion yuan. What's more, ASML's downward trend did not seem to slow down at this time.

The most important thing is that when the SVG was acquired in the early stage, the market has already been bearish. At this time, the news from Intel is too hurtful.

The three of them returned to the meeting room, and Lin Xiao drank coffee comfortably. He reckoned that if Frank Foster had really communicated about this emergency and the headquarters had authorized it, then the other party would be more likely to agree. big.

After all, Philips still has to worry about it. If the price of ASML falls again, he will really change his mind.

In fact, it’s not that Lin Xiao hadn’t thought about waiting for ASML’s stock price to drop further before discussing this matter with Philips. However, after thinking about it, he still chose to offer a price of 40 billion yuan.

Firstly, after the news of Intel came out, although there was a certain blow to ASML, the blow was not fatal. This point, before the development of immersion lithography technology in the previous life, ASML did not recover from a setback, which has already shown some question.

ASML still has technology and market. As Frank Foster said, after this wave of unfavorable news, it is possible for ASML to go back up. It’s just a matter of level.

Once a price that is too low is given, it is estimated that Philips is more likely to be willing to take a gamble, which can be seen from Frank Foster's attitude at the price of 35 billion just now.

After all, ASML still has some background, and Philips also knows the bottom line. Once the price exceeds their bottom line, they are very likely to choose to wait a few months to see the market reaction.

Therefore, in the previous life, it is very likely that Philips sold ASML shares in the second half of 2000 because the investment institution's quotation was too low.

Lin Xiao naturally didn't want to delay it any longer, because that meant increased uncertainty, and competitors might reappear. After all, the price would not necessarily be lower than his current offer.

Secondly, for Lin Xiao, if the price of ASML is 40 billion yuan, then he only needs 22.8 million yuan to get 9.12% of the shares, which is completely within his budget.

He even thought about closing all the stocks to get this share.

Now that he has the opportunity to get the shares in one fell swoop, Lin Xiao naturally does not want to let go of this opportunity.

Moreover, if you choose to quote a price that is considered sincere in this situation, you can also take the opportunity to put forward some other conditions, such as the payment deadline and so on.

Calculated in this way, if you don't need to rush to close out the Nasdaq stocks, the benefits you can bring are not less than the money you save by bargaining.

Of course, the most critical point is that Lin Xiao believes that it is worth it to get 22.8% of ASML shares at this price!

Whether it is based on your own chip plan or the appreciation this plan will bring to ASML, the money invested will be sure to make money!
Lin Xiao was thinking and waiting. About 10 minutes later, Frank Foster re-entered the conference room.

"Mr. Lin, I kept you waiting!" Frank Foster first said politely, and then said to Lin Xiao with a smile on his face:

"After some communication, the company headquarters has agreed to your proposed acquisition plan!"

When Lin Xiao heard this, a smile appeared on his face.

Become!

22.8% of the shares are all his own!
　If the headache doesn't subside tomorrow, I think I should see a doctor~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)